District Court - Louisiana East Program Area: Weapons

Percent not reported where cases too few to provide meaningful comparison.Table 1: Current and 5 YearMedian Prison Sentence Comparison

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Judge

District

Compared To District

U.S.

Compared To U.S.

Latest Fiscal Year

240.0

84.0

186%

46.0

422%

Previous Fiscal Year

24.0

45.0

-

48.0

-

Past 5 Years

101.0

57.0

77.2%

48.0

110%

Percent not reported where cases too few to provide meaningful comparison.Table 1: Current and 5 YearMedian Prison Sentence Comparison

For all cases disposed of in the current fiscal year (2012) that were credited
to Judge Martin Leach-Cross Feldman in the Eastern District of Louisiana, the
median prison sentence was 240.0 months, when looking only at cases falling under the broad category of "Weapons".
This number is 185.7% higher than the
median prison sentence for all the Eastern District of Louisiana matters disposed in the same period. At
the same time, the judge's median prison sentence was 421.7%
higher than the typical 2012 sentence for the nation as a whole.
During the current fiscal year, Judge Martin Leach-Cross Feldman has
sentenced 10 defendants
compared with 3 defendants during the twelve months
of the previous fiscal year.

Focusing on a five-year period, the median prison sentence imposed on defendants
that were credited to Judge Feldman was 101.0 months. This was
77.2% higher than the 57.0 months typical
in Louisiana East and 110.4% higher than
the 48.0 months median prison sentence for the nation.
Judge Martin Leach-Cross Feldman sentenced 34 defendants during the past five years.

(CAUTION: The kinds of cases handled by individual judges influences
statistical information about their sentences. It therefore is
important to consider the breakdown of cases that each has handled,
available below, when making judge-by-judge comparisons.)

Figure 1: Five Year Comparison of Median Prison Sentencein Months

Figure 1 compares Judge Feldman's numbers to those for judges in this district and
in the United States as a whole for cases of this type over the last five years.

During the last five years there were 10 other judges in the Eastern District of Louisiana with information
on convictions during that period.
Median prison sentence numbers passed down for those judges
ranged from 33.0 months to 72.0 months, putting Judge Feldman's median prison sentence
of 101.0 months at the higher end of the range.
The median prison sentence
for the whole Eastern District of Louisiana during that time was 57.0 months.

Figure 2: Detailed Comparison among Judges for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Professional Biography

Born 1934 in St. Louis, MO

Federal Judicial Service
Judge, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana

Nominated by Ronald Reagan on September 12, 1983, to a seat vacated by Jack M. Gordon; Confirmed by the Senate on October 4, 1983, and received commission on October 5, 1983.

Professional Career:
U.S. Army Reserve captain, JAG Corps, 1957-1963Law clerk, Hon. John Minor Wisdom, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1957-1959Private practice, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1959-1983

Lead Investigative Agencies in Cases Handled

The lead investigative agency that referred cases disposed of by Judge Martin Leach-Cross Feldman for the past five years
was the Justice - Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (formerly Treasury). It accounted for 97.1% of all cases.